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Mount Pleasant, Michigan 48858
Wednesday/November 3, 1971
In a close race last night, the two incumbents, Hudson Keenan and Paul Hubscher,
were re-elected to the Mt. -Pleasant City Commission.   ..'.■"'"
Keenan collected a total of 1,977 ballots, oi: 23 percent of the total vote, and Hubscher gathered 1,814 votes, or 21 percent of the total Vote cast. In third place was
Carol Scherer with 1,559 votes, or 14 percent bf the total cast.
Keenan carried, a plurality of the votes in all precincts except numbers 1 and 5.
Hub$cher carried all precincts except numbers 5 and 6* Ida Meltzer and Carol
Scherer both carried a highnumber$ votes in precinct 5.
In the* other two issues on the ballot, the.requestfor renewal of 7.5 mills for the
Jit,' Pleasant School^ District was passed with 66 percent of the vote and the bonding
issue for the indoor swimming pool question was defeated by 55 percent of the vote.
"Included in the totals for these ^questions were votes from three precincts not in the
city, but within the Mt. Pleasant School District,
According to a poll conducted during the election in" selected precincts by Information Services, CMU Student Government and Central Michigan LIFE, 54 percent of the
students registered to vote cast ballots in the election* This means about 1,900 of the
3,677 eligible students voted.
Appropriations set
for Student Senate
By ANDY MARTI
LIFE Staff Writer
Student Senate approved ah appropriation Monday night furnishing $100 to
student government, for what Student Body
Treasurer Kobert Mcintosh termed
"necessary office expenses.'*
The motion came in response to a
warning by Mcintosh that if Senate did
not approve funds, he could spend the
money without their consent. "According
to the vStudent Body Constitution, the
treasurer may spend money without Sen-''
ate approval to the limit of $50 per
expenditure/' Mcintosh said. "If Senate
won't act, then I will."
The -appropriation. was first proposed
. two weeks ago, but Seriate failed to approve
it at that time, due to the lack of a
prepared student government budget.
■ Lack, of a budget was explained by
Mcintosh as resulting from "the failure
of several student government funded
organizations to present proposed budgets
to him.
The appropriation was passed, with an
amendment stating that the organizations
funded by student government—Tenants
Union, Center for Educational Reform
(CER), Legal Aid and the Elections Committee—submit budget proposals to Mcintosh by Nov. 8. This will enable the
development of a budget to be presented
to the Student Senate Meeting scheduled
Nov. 15. .'
A petition drive calling for the hiring
of* a full-time female gynecologist, by
CMU's Student Health Services was en-
dorsed by Senate resolution. The drive'
was-originated by Women's Health Pro
ject which is a branch of Associated
Women Students. Currently, over 2,100
students have signed the petition.
Cathy Courtney, speaking for Women's
Health Project gave these reasons for
the hiring of a gynecologist:
"Fifty-four percent of the University
is composed of women, yet there is no
doctor to satisfy the specific needs of
women. CMU's Student Health Services
has arbitrarily discontinued its birth control program, due to the lack of trained
personnel. Health Se^yices has ,rejQrtj|d
as^many as three hew pregnancies adayV
"A gynecologist would alleviate much
pressure on the present staff of the Health
Services and enable individual Health
care."
Seriate voted to contribute $25 to help
pay expenses for a trip to an Educational
Reform conference at the University of
Illinois* The journey is being made this
Weekend by nine members of CER.
Senate also voted $125 to pay expenses
for three delegates and 2 observers to
the Michigan Student Association Constitutional convention at Eastern Michigan
University." The CMU representatives for
the conference, scheduled Nov. 19-21,
•wilf be selected at the next Senate meeting. ;
Oh a."motion by Rick Kowalkowski,
Senate approved an appropriation to engrave the names of last year's D„ Louise
Sharp outstanding Organization Award and
Outstanding Student Senator Award winner
on the appropriate plaques. The winners,
Volunteer Services and Dave Haney,
respectively, were selected last year,
but Senate had no funds,.with which to
pay for engraving the names.
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MANY STUDENTS voting for the first time found "they had to have their voter
registration validated before casting their ballot. The municipal election was
to fill two seats on the City Commission and on two millage proposals for the
LIFE photo by Russ Yantis
school district.-
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S-Government seeks back loan
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By KATHY KULINEC
LIFE Administrations Editor
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The re-acquisition of $2,500.given out
three years ago is the first task facing
the Student Government Organization
Assistance Fuhd<SGOAF) this fall.
The money was loaned out in 1969
to the Kingsriran Rho Psi Fraternity to
help, finance a Stevie Wonder concert
hefd on May 7, 1969.
According to Karl Metzger, director
of Student Activities, representatives of ■
the fraternity came,, to him/in December'
of 1968 to request $2,500 to secure
Stevie Wonder for a concert engagement.
Metzger referred them to SGOAF -and
the committee. agreed to loan the money
to the Kingsmen. ' '
if the cpneert was a financial success,
the loan would be paid back immediately
after the concert. However, if the concert, was a failure the Kingsmen agreed
that fraternity members'would each sign
notes for ten percent of the loan, or
$250 feach. These notes were to be paid
back'within a five-year limit.
Approximately 450 attended the concert
which   was  termed a financial failure.
"To my "knowledge, these notes have
never been,signed " said Metzger.
He also said ..that the Kingsmen requested an additional $1,025 to pay the
balance of the concert," ,"I loaned them
the money from the Student Activities
account, then SSAC, and it was repaid
within two weeks. I didn't want the fra-r
ternity involved in a lawsuit for breach
of contract."
being responsible for getting the money man, Mark Hanner, Jackson junior, Ros-
back. "The^e is nothing being done to anna Robinson, Howell sophomore and
get the money back right now," he said.   Robert L. Taylor Ubly junior.
"If SGOAF isn't going to use the money,
totalling approximately $7.0,00, I know
of organizations around here, that need
money arid are not funded Tiy the University/' he said. He cited the Listening
Ear as one example.       .
- SGOAF was set up to assist the organizations of CMU in developing, worthwhile
programs and projects,. Ten thousand
dollars -was set aside in an account
separate from the student government
budget account for the committee to work
with. .'"'•''
Four students comprise the committee
which examine requests for funds and
draw up terms for contract agreetnents.
According to the policy of SGOAF, no
single loan can exceed $2,500 without
the approval of Student Senate, and the
disbursment of funds is the responsibi-
ity of the student body treasurer.
A request for financial assistance must
be made in writing two weeks before
funds are to be allocated and should
include reasons for the need of the loan
and plans for repayment^ whether the
project succeeds or not.
The responsibility.for repaying the loan
will rest with the organization borrowing
funds and the organization's advisor will
hot be held personally liable for the loan.
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